Music Affects Us
It's difficult to think of a more efficient means of dispelling your worries than music, especially if you're emotional and have to face an everyday stressful and demanding work milieu. So, if you have had enough of tight competition or deadlines and of not quite amiable line managers, just play a Mozart piano sonata when you get home, and see if it doesn't calm and uplift you right away. The gentle and pure sounds and the merry tune will act as a clean-up of all the evils around.
Are you a professional in one of those lines of business involving a lot of responsibility, such as medicine, beauty, law or accountancy, and after a day of work you need some smart and active relaxation? Consider listening to some song from 'Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff, a winning combination of irony and coolness, which will keep you entertained if not making you laugh, whether you know Latin or not.
Do you need fresh romance in your long-standing marriage? What about a romantic dinner in some resort cottage, accompanied by Beethoven's 'Moon Sonata', with its infinitely delicate passion, or, if you'd rather have something closer to modern sensibility, some Nico singing - both playfully and tragically - 'After Hours', with Velvet Underground?
Are you a refined intellectual or believer, who enjoys beauty or spirit for its sake and for the sake of allowing you to commune with the perfect? Certainly, Bach's 'Magnificat' would allow you to do that, as it would Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'. If both spiritually and temperamentally you are rather the Woodstock type, seeing transcendence as attainable by the body when free, healthy, enjoying itself and loving, then definitely AC/DC or Black Sabbath would be the best for you. The bottom line is that music in whatever form is able to relieve your tension, make you feel relaxed, uplifted, in love or communion.
Imagine how more useful it would be, were you able to play it yourself! Believe it or not, there is, for instance, a fast and easy method to learn piano at least, without requiring specialist knowledge or the ability to read traditional music sheets or to perform stuck on your piano stool for endless hours, in order to reach the level of playing to an audience. It's so functional because it works with numbers and colors and patterns - easy to see and learn. Is it not worth trying, so that to be able to perform at least a bagatelle, such as Beethoven's 'Fur Elise' to your enchanted friends?
Are you a professional in one of those lines of business involving a lot of responsibility, such as medicine, beauty, law or accountancy, and after a day of work you need some smart and active relaxation? Consider listening to some song from 'Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff, a winning combination of irony and coolness, which will keep you entertained if not making you laugh, whether you know Latin or not.
Do you need fresh romance in your long-standing marriage? What about a romantic dinner in some resort cottage, accompanied by Beethoven's 'Moon Sonata', with its infinitely delicate passion, or, if you'd rather have something closer to modern sensibility, some Nico singing - both playfully and tragically - 'After Hours', with Velvet Underground?
Are you a refined intellectual or believer, who enjoys beauty or spirit for its sake and for the sake of allowing you to commune with the perfect? Certainly, Bach's 'Magnificat' would allow you to do that, as it would Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'. If both spiritually and temperamentally you are rather the Woodstock type, seeing transcendence as attainable by the body when free, healthy, enjoying itself and loving, then definitely AC/DC or Black Sabbath would be the best for you. The bottom line is that music in whatever form is able to relieve your tension, make you feel relaxed, uplifted, in love or communion.
Imagine how more useful it would be, were you able to play it yourself! Believe it or not, there is, for instance, a fast and easy method to learn piano at least, without requiring specialist knowledge or the ability to read traditional music sheets or to perform stuck on your piano stool for endless hours, in order to reach the level of playing to an audience. It's so functional because it works with numbers and colors and patterns - easy to see and learn. Is it not worth trying, so that to be able to perform at least a bagatelle, such as Beethoven's 'Fur Elise' to your enchanted friends?
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Who hasn't been at a party or a concert, loved the music performed and planned to begin to learn piano?